Wildfires of 2010

Red Rooster Fire

2010OklahomaWildfire

The Red Rooster Fire burned 1,500 acres in Oklahoma, in 2010. It was discovered on August 26, 2010, and contained on August 30, 2010. The cause was recorded as arson/incendiarism.

Size
1,500 acres
Discovered
August 26, 2010
Contained
August 30, 2010
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,743 acres. Point of origin as reported, 34.982, -95.396.

The record

Reported final size
1,500 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
2,743 acres
Discovered
August 26, 2010, 2:12 p.m. local time
Contained
August 30, 2010, 4:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Human, Arson/incendiarism
State
Oklahoma
Land ownership at origin
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Reporting unit
Talihina Agency
Agency
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
OK3498409539320100826
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Fire occurrence record
W-607957

The three sizes are three measurements: the size the agency reported when the fire was out, the burned area MTBS drew from satellite imagery before and after, and the GIS area inside the final perimeter, unburned islands included. They rarely agree exactly.

Other large fires in Oklahoma in 201012

FireAcresStartCause
Persimmon Ridge Rd Fire3,200Dec 20, 2010Human
Hutchinson Rd Fire3,200Dec 22, 2010Human
North Woodward Fire3,000Apr 9, 2010Human
Deer Lake Fire2,613Mar 30, 2010Human
County Line Fire2,300Sep 3, 2010Human
North Mountain Fire2,265Aug 13, 2010Human
Tallant Hill Fire2,180Mar 30, 2010Human
Gulf Fire1,659Nov 28, 2010Human
Pistol Pete Fire1,621Mar 19, 2010Human
Airstream Fire1,567Mar 19, 2010Human
Lookout Fire1,475Mar 4, 2010Human
No Torch Fire1,376Mar 18, 2010Human

Every fire of 2010 Oklahoma fire history

Nearby

Sources

Burned areas and ignition dates from Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS), a program of the US Geological Survey and the USDA Forest Service. Fire reports from Short, Karen C. 2022, Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014], 6th Edition, Forest Service Research Data Archive, doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6. Records before 2014 were joined by this site: a fire report to the burned area its MTBS identifier names, a perimeter to the burned area it lies in when the names or the sizes agree.